The Undead Empire That Travels Through the Multiverse

The Skyraider attack aircraft taking off from two Egyptian aircraft carriers totaled six squadrons and 144 aircraft, forming three attack formations and launching attacks on the Italian Navy from three different directions.

Each of their aircraft carries twelve 500-pound aerial bombs and two air-launched torpedoes. After the attack is launched, they will launch torpedoes close to the sea. After the attack is completed, they will quickly adjust their position and conduct dive bombing.

If it were the battlefield in the late World War II, when all countries had increased their air defense firepower, even the excellent performance of the Skyraider attack aircraft would be torn into pieces by the airtight air defense network, just like the Mariana Turkey Shooting Contest .

But it is still the early days of World War II, and countries still have insufficient understanding of aircraft carriers and carrier-based aircraft. Therefore, even the Italian Navy's new battleship Littorio does not have many anti-aircraft weapons, let alone two old battleships and other ships. .

Just like the Taranto air raid launched by the British in history, the Italian naval fleet was unable to organize any effective air defense at all. Even the Swordfish attack aircraft were able to attack freely in front of them, let alone Skyraider attacks. The machine is a monster that can still shine even during the Vietnam War.

Just the first batch of torpedo attacks damaged two cruisers, three destroyers and a battleship, and one of the destroyers directly caught fire and sank.

The subsequent dive bombing further consolidated the results of the battle. The two cruisers quickly ignited a fire, one of which exploded and sank. The two destroyers were both spared, and two more battle results were added.

The other two battleships were also damaged, and one of them had a main gun turret ripped off. It was smoking and trying to withdraw from the battlefield for damage control repairs.

But at this time, the belated British finally arrived on the battlefield.

The Swordfish attack planes quickly entered the attack position and then launched a fierce attack.

Under the helpless struggle of the Italian Navy's weak anti-aircraft firepower, a huge fleet of more than two hundred aircraft swept through the entire fleet like a storm.

On the sea surface of the entire battle area, fires and thick smoke were ignited everywhere, as well as huge splashes of water caused by explosions.

On the other side of the sea, Cunningham stood on the bridge of the Warspite, holding a telescope and looking at the scene in front of him in shock, feeling like his whole body was shaking.

Although Cunningham himself is a naval officer who does not like battleships and prefers aircraft carriers, this does not prevent him from knowing that battleships are the absolute main force in today's naval fleet.

They are like knights in the Middle Ages. Their solid and reliable defense and incomparable firepower have made battleships the absolute protagonist in naval battles since the concept was proposed in the age of sail.

However, now, before his eyes, a change that subverts the tradition of naval warfare and is about to rewrite the form of war is taking place before his eyes.

Aircraft carriers, a new type of ship that only emerged after the last war, are rewriting history at an unprecedented speed, making battleships, the star of naval warfare that has shone for hundreds of years, about to be eliminated by the times.

Although Cunningham was keenly aware that this was a battle that would rewrite the form of war when Chen Mo proposed that the aircraft carrier launch an air strike, he never thought that the change would come so quickly.

Originally, he thought it would be a gradual and developmental process like the elimination of heavily armored knights with muskets, but he did not expect that it would be as if one side was still charging with the knights, while the other side had already taken out a Maxim heavy machine gun and started mowing the grass.

The Skyraider attack aircraft, with its performance and attack methods that completely surpassed an entire generation of this era, not only taught the Italian Navy a solid lesson, but also greatly subverted Cunningham's three views.

At this moment, he became more and more determined that the Navy should develop aircraft carriers. At the same time, he also made it clear that in order to develop aircraft carriers, it must vigorously develop carrier-based aircraft.

After all, he could also see that the gap between the British Swordfish attack aircraft and the Egyptian Skyraider attack aircraft was as big as the sky.

"It seems that we need to tell the Navy Department and let them give the domestic aircraft manufacturers a good beating. The Navy's carrier-based aircraft are simply behind an era." Cunningham looked at the sky raiders who were conducting dive bombing. The fighter attacked the aircraft, his eyes full of envy.

However, Cunningham does not plan to let the British Navy directly purchase Skyraider attack aircraft. Instead, he plans to let the British aircraft manufacturers design a new carrier-based aircraft that is comparable to the Skyraider attack aircraft.

This is not the arrogance of old-style imperialism, but if a country relies on purchasing foreign products for its armaments, even if it is purchased from allies, it will put its own country at the mercy of others.

And even if you want to buy it, you won’t just buy the finished product directly. Instead, you will introduce technology and design and then produce it yourself.

If you just buy it and use it, that is really stupid.

What's more, the British aviation industry is not weak. The Swordfish attack aircraft does adopt a rather conservative and old-fashioned design, but this is not the true level of the British aviation industry.

Although the airplane was invented by the Americans, the Industrial Revolution emerged from the United Kingdom. In the field of industry, the United Kingdom has completely declined in later generations and was ridiculed out of the five permanent members. Even the British Isles are about to split. Has a profound accumulation.

Not to mention, although Britain has begun to decline, it is still at its peak.

The Battle of Britain in World War II was enough to prove Britain's excellence in the field of aviation. The Hurricane, Spitfire, and Mustang are all very good fighter jets, and are now in service in the British Air Force. Although their performance is still not as good as the Skyraider, they are still Far more than a swordfish.

In fact, in the UK, the Navy is already purchasing new carrier-based aircraft for aircraft carriers, but they have basically just passed the test and have not yet officially entered service.

Originally, Cunningham might have regretted this, feeling that if those new carrier-based aircraft were put into service, the Egyptians would not be so prominent.

But now it seems that this is a good thing, because at least the country does not need to waste resources and precious production capacity to produce models that can no longer keep up with the times. Instead, it can design a machine that is comparable to the Skyraider. type, giving the British Navy greater strength.

Thinking of this, he decided to go to the British Ambassador to Egypt after returning to Hong Kong and ask him to talk to the Egyptians about introducing the production technology of the Skyraider attack aircraft. At least he must get the design parameters of this aircraft so that the domestic Aircraft manufacturers have a reference standard.

But now, the aircraft carriers have finished their work, and it's time for the battleships to put the finishing touches.

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